1 00:00:03,439 --> 00:00:05,679 Welcome to episode 420 2 00:00:05,679 --> 00:00:08,720 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro podcast recorded 3 00:00:08,720 --> 00:00:11,939 live on 01/16/2026. 4 00:00:12,160 --> 00:00:14,400 This is a show about Microsoft three sixty 5 00:00:14,400 --> 00:00:16,614 five in Azure from the perspective of IT 6 00:00:16,614 --> 00:00:18,695 pros and end users, where we discuss a 7 00:00:18,695 --> 00:00:21,094 topic or recent news and how it relates 8 00:00:21,094 --> 00:00:23,414 to you. It's that time of year again, 9 00:00:23,414 --> 00:00:25,574 though, when Ben and Scott actually take a 10 00:00:25,574 --> 00:00:27,654 bit of a break from Microsoft three sixty 11 00:00:27,654 --> 00:00:29,754 five and Azure and talk about gadgets. 12 00:00:30,109 --> 00:00:32,510 You know, those things we purchased or maybe 13 00:00:32,510 --> 00:00:34,750 had purchased for us throughout the year that 14 00:00:34,750 --> 00:00:38,210 we've enjoyed playing with and experimenting with. Essentially, 15 00:00:38,510 --> 00:00:41,950 this episode solidifies us as full blown geeks 16 00:00:41,950 --> 00:00:44,085 who have way too much fun with various 17 00:00:44,244 --> 00:00:47,364 tech gadgets. So without further ado, what did 18 00:00:47,364 --> 00:00:49,384 we spend our money on this year? 19 00:00:51,604 --> 00:00:53,364 Hopefully, we can remember how to do this 20 00:00:53,364 --> 00:00:54,884 thing. It's been a little bit. We're gonna 21 00:00:54,884 --> 00:00:56,884 ease our way into it because when I 22 00:00:56,884 --> 00:00:57,945 talk about Microsoft 23 00:00:58,484 --> 00:01:01,020 three sixty five and Azure, Given the holidays 24 00:01:01,020 --> 00:01:03,179 and the timing and things like that, and, 25 00:01:03,179 --> 00:01:05,819 you know, frankly, it's our show, let's hop 26 00:01:05,819 --> 00:01:09,020 in and talk about our kinda yearly tech 27 00:01:09,020 --> 00:01:11,200 review and maybe some of the fun stuff 28 00:01:11,420 --> 00:01:13,340 that we got for Christmas that we've bought. 29 00:01:13,340 --> 00:01:14,959 Tentative title for this custom 30 00:01:15,420 --> 00:01:18,375 for this episode, and spoiler for those listening, 31 00:01:18,594 --> 00:01:20,835 is Ben convinces Scott to buy a three 32 00:01:20,835 --> 00:01:22,915 d printer. A 100%. You need to do 33 00:01:22,915 --> 00:01:24,515 this, Scott. Yeah. Should we start with that 34 00:01:24,515 --> 00:01:26,355 one since you just said that? It's either 35 00:01:26,355 --> 00:01:29,075 that or Scott convinces Ben to buy a 36 00:01:29,075 --> 00:01:31,075 five k monitor or six k monitor. We'll 37 00:01:31,075 --> 00:01:31,409 see. 38 00:01:32,450 --> 00:01:35,090 Or Ben convinces Scott's wife to let him 39 00:01:35,090 --> 00:01:37,329 buy a three d printer. That's gonna be 40 00:01:37,329 --> 00:01:39,650 the uphill battle. Like like, really, the like, 41 00:01:39,650 --> 00:01:41,810 we've talked about the wife acceptance factor in 42 00:01:41,810 --> 00:01:43,810 the past. Yep. I can tell you, I 43 00:01:43,810 --> 00:01:45,730 did float this idea for the last couple 44 00:01:45,730 --> 00:01:48,174 weeks, like, hey, look at this cool fidget 45 00:01:48,174 --> 00:01:49,935 toy that Ben printed out at home and 46 00:01:49,935 --> 00:01:51,854 sent me a thing of, hey, look at 47 00:01:51,854 --> 00:01:54,015 this grid system that he put in his 48 00:01:54,015 --> 00:01:56,094 office and how organized everything is. And you 49 00:01:56,094 --> 00:01:57,614 look at my desk and it's a mess. 50 00:01:57,614 --> 00:01:59,454 Like, maybe that would help him do it. 51 00:01:59,454 --> 00:02:01,770 It hasn't really resonated yet, so I'm gonna 52 00:02:01,770 --> 00:02:03,930 kinda dig in a little bit and and 53 00:02:03,930 --> 00:02:05,770 look for some tips here since you convinced 54 00:02:05,770 --> 00:02:06,430 your wife, 55 00:02:06,890 --> 00:02:08,669 or maybe your wife convinced you. 56 00:02:09,050 --> 00:02:10,810 Or maybe I just kind of bought it 57 00:02:10,810 --> 00:02:12,030 and asked for forgiveness. 58 00:02:12,490 --> 00:02:14,090 There might have been a little bit of 59 00:02:14,090 --> 00:02:16,455 that too of, I need a Christmas present 60 00:02:16,455 --> 00:02:18,375 for me, and there's no big LEGO sets 61 00:02:18,375 --> 00:02:19,754 I want. So 62 00:02:20,455 --> 00:02:21,974 let's buy a three d printer. There's no 63 00:02:21,974 --> 00:02:23,974 big LEGO sets because you hadn't seen CES 64 00:02:23,974 --> 00:02:26,375 yet and the LEGO smart bricks and all 65 00:02:26,375 --> 00:02:28,135 that. Yeah. We'll get into that. So let's 66 00:02:28,135 --> 00:02:30,694 start with three d printers. So so you 67 00:02:30,694 --> 00:02:31,194 got 68 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:34,159 a three d printer. Yes. The first one 69 00:02:34,159 --> 00:02:36,560 you've ever had new to this. What kind 70 00:02:36,560 --> 00:02:39,199 of printer did you get? And let's talk 71 00:02:39,199 --> 00:02:40,580 a little bit about your experience. 72 00:02:41,120 --> 00:02:43,039 I got the Bamboo Labs. I went with 73 00:02:43,039 --> 00:02:44,340 them. The P2S. 74 00:02:45,855 --> 00:02:48,495 So this is one that I've kinda had 75 00:02:48,495 --> 00:02:50,014 my eye on it. I have a friend 76 00:02:50,014 --> 00:02:52,895 that has the p one s, which was 77 00:02:52,895 --> 00:02:55,474 the predecessor to the p two s. Shocker. 78 00:02:56,014 --> 00:02:57,534 Yeah. I know. Right? And then the p 79 00:02:57,534 --> 00:02:58,895 two s was announced, saw a bunch of 80 00:02:58,895 --> 00:03:00,115 reviews, and there was, 81 00:03:00,419 --> 00:03:02,340 based on the reviews I saw talking to 82 00:03:02,340 --> 00:03:04,840 my friend, there was a very big 83 00:03:05,299 --> 00:03:07,539 feature update, a lot of improvements from the 84 00:03:07,539 --> 00:03:09,319 p one s to the p two s 85 00:03:09,539 --> 00:03:10,519 for a very 86 00:03:10,900 --> 00:03:11,400 marginal, 87 00:03:11,699 --> 00:03:13,400 if any, price increase. 88 00:03:13,715 --> 00:03:15,235 So I saw the notes. I actually went 89 00:03:15,235 --> 00:03:16,674 to go buy it, and I couldn't buy 90 00:03:16,674 --> 00:03:18,354 it in The US. We are not going 91 00:03:18,354 --> 00:03:19,894 to spend a bunch of time on this. 92 00:03:20,034 --> 00:03:22,454 Tariffs were affecting their ability 93 00:03:22,995 --> 00:03:23,495 to 94 00:03:24,194 --> 00:03:26,055 ship it, sell it in The US. 95 00:03:26,400 --> 00:03:28,400 So I was watching all these videos. Everybody 96 00:03:28,400 --> 00:03:30,240 was buying it, raving about it, loving it, 97 00:03:30,240 --> 00:03:31,680 and I'm like, I can't buy it because 98 00:03:31,680 --> 00:03:33,599 I live in The US. Eventually, they got 99 00:03:33,599 --> 00:03:36,400 it all figured out, was able to purchase 100 00:03:36,400 --> 00:03:38,000 it. I may have gone a little bit 101 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:40,639 of overboard or a little overboard because You? 102 00:03:40,639 --> 00:03:43,224 Never. Yeah. Never. No. So I got that. 103 00:03:43,224 --> 00:03:45,085 I also got the package with 104 00:03:45,385 --> 00:03:47,004 the AMS two Pro, 105 00:03:47,305 --> 00:03:49,064 which is like a filament feeder. So I 106 00:03:49,064 --> 00:03:50,905 can put four spools of filament in and 107 00:03:50,905 --> 00:03:53,245 it kinda automatically, if I'm printing multicolor, 108 00:03:53,705 --> 00:03:55,500 will switch between them. I've done that a 109 00:03:55,500 --> 00:03:57,659 little bit, but the other big advantage of 110 00:03:57,659 --> 00:03:58,639 that is 111 00:03:58,939 --> 00:04:00,780 this is all stuff I'm learning. The filament 112 00:04:00,860 --> 00:04:03,099 certain filaments need to be dried. We live 113 00:04:03,099 --> 00:04:05,180 in Florida, which is very humid, so I 114 00:04:05,180 --> 00:04:08,000 wanted a good way to dry this filament. 115 00:04:08,060 --> 00:04:10,319 And there's ways you can do it, like, 116 00:04:10,415 --> 00:04:13,215 in the oven or go build filament dryers 117 00:04:13,215 --> 00:04:14,655 or all of this. I'm like, you know, 118 00:04:14,655 --> 00:04:16,574 this serves two purposes. It can dry the 119 00:04:16,574 --> 00:04:18,895 filament. It can also feed the filament into 120 00:04:18,895 --> 00:04:19,555 the printer. 121 00:04:19,935 --> 00:04:21,774 So I got that with it, and then 122 00:04:21,774 --> 00:04:23,375 I maybe bought a little bit too much 123 00:04:23,375 --> 00:04:25,379 filament. Like, I got glow in the dark 124 00:04:25,540 --> 00:04:27,800 filament. I have transparent filament. 125 00:04:28,339 --> 00:04:29,240 I have 126 00:04:30,180 --> 00:04:30,920 matte filament. 127 00:04:31,379 --> 00:04:33,540 And then there's different like, the different types 128 00:04:33,540 --> 00:04:35,699 of filament you can get, the PLA and 129 00:04:35,699 --> 00:04:38,759 the PET g and, like, 30 other ones. 130 00:04:39,104 --> 00:04:41,685 So that I would say has probably been 131 00:04:41,745 --> 00:04:43,985 the biggest learning curve for me is not 132 00:04:43,985 --> 00:04:46,305 so much how to use it. Like, it's 133 00:04:46,305 --> 00:04:48,544 super simple to print stuff. You go to 134 00:04:48,544 --> 00:04:51,024 Maker World, you download models, upload them, hit, 135 00:04:51,024 --> 00:04:52,964 like, three buttons, and you can start printing. 136 00:04:53,149 --> 00:04:54,050 But it's been 137 00:04:54,430 --> 00:04:56,129 a lot more learning around 138 00:04:56,670 --> 00:04:58,910 what filaments should I get, how do you 139 00:04:58,910 --> 00:05:02,449 print most effectively with different filaments because 140 00:05:03,230 --> 00:05:05,149 different heats and whether you have to dry 141 00:05:05,149 --> 00:05:06,930 it or you don't have to dry it. 142 00:05:07,149 --> 00:05:08,894 I've had some where, like, it doesn't stick 143 00:05:08,894 --> 00:05:10,574 to the plate that it prints on, and 144 00:05:10,574 --> 00:05:12,814 it's like, I forgot to clean it, and 145 00:05:12,814 --> 00:05:14,334 then I have to go clean all my 146 00:05:14,334 --> 00:05:16,514 greasy fingerprints off of it and 147 00:05:16,975 --> 00:05:18,975 reprint. So a bunch of that type of 148 00:05:18,975 --> 00:05:20,274 stuff, but, overall, 149 00:05:20,750 --> 00:05:22,750 I mean, I'm up to, like, two hundred 150 00:05:22,750 --> 00:05:23,490 and fifty 151 00:05:23,949 --> 00:05:26,370 to three hundred hours printing on it now. 152 00:05:27,870 --> 00:05:29,629 Like, you just got this thing. They're like 153 00:05:29,710 --> 00:05:32,270 you've been printing twenty four seven since Right. 154 00:05:32,270 --> 00:05:34,029 It just runs all night. Like, I find 155 00:05:34,029 --> 00:05:35,475 a printer, I'm like, oh, this one takes 156 00:05:35,555 --> 00:05:37,154 thirteen hours. I'll start this one at, like, 157 00:05:37,154 --> 00:05:38,834 8PM tonight, so it'll be done in the 158 00:05:38,834 --> 00:05:41,154 morning. But, no, like you said, it's been 159 00:05:41,154 --> 00:05:43,314 a mix of some fidget toys. The kids 160 00:05:43,314 --> 00:05:46,375 have loved the fidget toys, whether it's infinite 161 00:05:46,435 --> 00:05:49,014 cubes that just kinda keep folding or 162 00:05:49,339 --> 00:05:51,580 there were, like, little spiral of Christmas trees, 163 00:05:51,580 --> 00:05:52,699 and I sent you a video of this 164 00:05:52,699 --> 00:05:54,620 where you can drop it through and spin 165 00:05:54,620 --> 00:05:56,860 it and fidget with it. And the kids 166 00:05:56,860 --> 00:05:58,300 had so much fun with them. They're like, 167 00:05:58,300 --> 00:06:00,060 this is part of it. They're like, dad, 168 00:06:00,060 --> 00:06:01,339 we wanna give these to all of our 169 00:06:01,339 --> 00:06:03,900 friends for Christmas for their different coop classes. 170 00:06:03,900 --> 00:06:05,875 I ended up printing, like, 50 of these 171 00:06:05,875 --> 00:06:06,854 Christmas trees 172 00:06:07,714 --> 00:06:09,394 so the kids could give them to their 173 00:06:09,394 --> 00:06:10,774 different friends and 174 00:06:11,154 --> 00:06:13,875 all that. And realistically, I mean, each one 175 00:06:13,875 --> 00:06:16,034 is like a buck and a half to 176 00:06:16,034 --> 00:06:18,274 print it if you don't count the cost 177 00:06:18,274 --> 00:06:20,194 of the printer itself. I was gonna say, 178 00:06:20,194 --> 00:06:20,854 like, filament 179 00:06:21,289 --> 00:06:21,789 Yeah. 180 00:06:22,089 --> 00:06:23,550 And your time for 181 00:06:24,169 --> 00:06:26,410 what that's worth Right. To go in To 182 00:06:26,410 --> 00:06:28,269 do it. Get all that stuff done. Yeah. 183 00:06:28,329 --> 00:06:29,610 I mean, I've been looking at three d 184 00:06:29,610 --> 00:06:32,569 printers forever. I've tried to I think I 185 00:06:32,569 --> 00:06:34,615 have, like, some of the same hesitations around, 186 00:06:34,615 --> 00:06:37,175 like, the humidity, where you print it, what 187 00:06:37,175 --> 00:06:39,415 does that look like. But I've heard really 188 00:06:39,415 --> 00:06:41,814 good things about the Bamboo Labs stuff. Do 189 00:06:41,814 --> 00:06:43,834 you see them all the time on YouTube 190 00:06:44,295 --> 00:06:45,975 and things like that as you're going through? 191 00:06:45,975 --> 00:06:47,115 Yeah. I've been impressed. 192 00:06:47,419 --> 00:06:49,019 Yeah. The filament itself, like you said, I 193 00:06:49,019 --> 00:06:50,459 did the fidget toys, and then I did 194 00:06:50,459 --> 00:06:52,779 do containers for one of my drawers. I 195 00:06:52,779 --> 00:06:55,180 have some IKEA drawers in my office. And 196 00:06:55,180 --> 00:06:56,540 I could just go on and I'm like, 197 00:06:56,540 --> 00:06:58,459 I wanna make bins for these drawers. And 198 00:06:58,459 --> 00:07:02,665 someone made it's the Gridfinity system, made models 199 00:07:02,665 --> 00:07:05,464 already where you can just go print, like, 200 00:07:05,464 --> 00:07:07,785 the base plate for the system and then 201 00:07:07,785 --> 00:07:09,564 print stackable bins. And 202 00:07:09,944 --> 00:07:11,464 the one thing I like about it, my 203 00:07:11,464 --> 00:07:13,384 wife gives me a hard time about it. 204 00:07:13,384 --> 00:07:15,225 She's like, this feels like dollar store stuff. 205 00:07:15,225 --> 00:07:16,264 If you could just go buy it at 206 00:07:16,264 --> 00:07:19,389 the dollar store. I'm like, yeah. I could. 207 00:07:19,529 --> 00:07:20,969 But at the dollar store, I can't go 208 00:07:20,969 --> 00:07:22,329 in and say I want this to be 209 00:07:22,329 --> 00:07:25,769 a 140 millimeters by a 170 millimeters by 210 00:07:25,769 --> 00:07:26,589 50 millimeters. 211 00:07:27,129 --> 00:07:29,550 So I can very much the customization 212 00:07:29,930 --> 00:07:32,035 of it, whether it's that or all the 213 00:07:32,035 --> 00:07:34,754 cable management under my desk now is all 214 00:07:34,754 --> 00:07:36,914 done with stuff I three d printed. I've 215 00:07:36,914 --> 00:07:40,034 printed Lego storage containers. And I think we'll 216 00:07:40,034 --> 00:07:42,115 have to try and, like, include some pictures 217 00:07:42,115 --> 00:07:44,274 in the show notes or things like that 218 00:07:44,274 --> 00:07:46,240 of some Yeah. I'll put some pictures in. 219 00:07:46,240 --> 00:07:47,800 Doctor. Some of the stuff that you've done 220 00:07:47,800 --> 00:07:48,620 there because 221 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:51,160 it does have me enthralled. And I think 222 00:07:51,160 --> 00:07:52,680 it's less convincing me, like I said, than 223 00:07:52,680 --> 00:07:53,579 it is convincing 224 00:07:53,959 --> 00:07:55,479 my wife to get this done. But funny 225 00:07:55,479 --> 00:07:57,259 enough, you and I were chatting 226 00:07:57,654 --> 00:07:58,954 a little bit and 227 00:07:59,334 --> 00:08:01,574 you were talking about like, Oh, like maybe 228 00:08:01,574 --> 00:08:03,035 you'll need to go get a set of 229 00:08:03,254 --> 00:08:05,894 calipers, like digital calipers or something like that 230 00:08:05,894 --> 00:08:08,055 for measuring all this stuff. Maybe I didn't 231 00:08:08,055 --> 00:08:10,134 even mean to do this. Maybe it was 232 00:08:10,134 --> 00:08:10,634 purely 233 00:08:11,180 --> 00:08:14,620 subconscious on my part, but I did ask 234 00:08:14,620 --> 00:08:16,379 my wife, like, on my wish list for 235 00:08:16,379 --> 00:08:18,300 Christmas, I asked for a pair of digital 236 00:08:18,300 --> 00:08:20,139 calipers, and she bought me one. So I'm 237 00:08:20,139 --> 00:08:21,740 already ahead of the game. I have the 238 00:08:21,740 --> 00:08:22,240 calipers, 239 00:08:22,860 --> 00:08:25,964 just like, I Yeah. I'm so close. Almost 240 00:08:25,964 --> 00:08:28,865 ready to go and get there. We'll see. 241 00:08:29,164 --> 00:08:31,245 It's too bad the printer's like 80 times 242 00:08:31,245 --> 00:08:33,345 the price of the calipers. Like you said, 243 00:08:33,404 --> 00:08:35,325 my wife doesn't need to know that. Like, 244 00:08:35,325 --> 00:08:37,804 she doesn't listen to this podcast, thankfully. Okay. 245 00:08:37,804 --> 00:08:40,029 So we're safe. I might just, oops, look 246 00:08:40,029 --> 00:08:42,110 at this new thing that appeared on my 247 00:08:42,110 --> 00:08:44,429 desk here, which funny enough, maybe if we 248 00:08:44,429 --> 00:08:46,589 can move on to the five ks or 249 00:08:46,589 --> 00:08:48,830 six ks monitor thing. Yeah. You had stuff 250 00:08:48,830 --> 00:08:50,990 appear on your desk that you're telling me 251 00:08:50,990 --> 00:08:53,309 I should order. So I've been looking at 252 00:08:53,309 --> 00:08:55,490 a you and I are both like unabashed 253 00:08:55,745 --> 00:08:58,865 Apple fans, Mac fans, we both got MacBook 254 00:08:58,865 --> 00:09:01,184 Pros, and you've gone further with like the 255 00:09:01,184 --> 00:09:03,424 studios and things like that, but one of 256 00:09:03,424 --> 00:09:05,845 the things that I've never experienced 257 00:09:06,384 --> 00:09:08,704 is a five ks or a six ks 258 00:09:08,704 --> 00:09:10,809 monitor. So I spent some time 259 00:09:11,110 --> 00:09:11,929 at the 260 00:09:12,230 --> 00:09:13,990 Apple store at like a retail store over 261 00:09:13,990 --> 00:09:15,990 the holidays, like looking at the studio displays, 262 00:09:15,990 --> 00:09:17,990 things like that. Not so much because I 263 00:09:17,990 --> 00:09:19,509 wanted to buy a studio display, but I 264 00:09:19,509 --> 00:09:21,750 was just interested in the whole five ks 265 00:09:21,750 --> 00:09:24,070 aspect and people gushing at like, you know, 266 00:09:24,070 --> 00:09:25,894 like, It's kind of like Christmas vacation, can't 267 00:09:25,894 --> 00:09:27,975 see the lines, Russ, except, Oh, look, can't 268 00:09:27,975 --> 00:09:29,355 see the pixels, can you? 269 00:09:30,134 --> 00:09:31,894 And they're going to go figure that piece 270 00:09:31,894 --> 00:09:34,075 out. So one of the nice benefits that 271 00:09:34,375 --> 00:09:36,215 I get at work is we get a 272 00:09:36,215 --> 00:09:38,695 benefit where we get a certain amount of 273 00:09:38,695 --> 00:09:39,835 spend every year 274 00:09:40,179 --> 00:09:42,899 for all sorts of things, for health, personal 275 00:09:42,899 --> 00:09:45,300 health, I could buy gym membership, get it 276 00:09:45,300 --> 00:09:48,040 reimbursed, things like that. But it also does 277 00:09:48,259 --> 00:09:50,200 desktop things, so like if it's like ergonomic 278 00:09:50,340 --> 00:09:53,320 desktop. So over the years, I have this 279 00:09:53,379 --> 00:09:57,254 nice like Haworth Fern chair, It's a $1,500 280 00:09:57,254 --> 00:09:58,855 office chair. I would never buy that chair 281 00:09:58,855 --> 00:10:00,535 for myself, or I would never spend that 282 00:10:00,535 --> 00:10:01,654 much money on a chair. I'm the guy 283 00:10:01,654 --> 00:10:03,095 who like goes down the corner and is 284 00:10:03,095 --> 00:10:04,394 like, Oh, it's $20 285 00:10:04,774 --> 00:10:06,215 at the dollar store. Let's get it. And 286 00:10:06,215 --> 00:10:08,294 then I'm miserable. But so I've done that. 287 00:10:08,294 --> 00:10:10,235 I've done a standing desk over the years, 288 00:10:10,519 --> 00:10:12,600 things like that. So I've kitted out my 289 00:10:12,600 --> 00:10:15,559 desk based on that benefit and just having 290 00:10:15,559 --> 00:10:17,399 it there, and it's kind of like free 291 00:10:17,399 --> 00:10:20,539 money. So I was looking at some 292 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:22,519 five ks monitors, things like that, and I 293 00:10:22,519 --> 00:10:23,639 was like, you know what? Like, I just 294 00:10:23,639 --> 00:10:25,000 need to like pull the bullet and like 295 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:26,634 bite the bullet, get this done. Doctor. And 296 00:10:26,634 --> 00:10:28,154 go get one. Doctor. I picked one up 297 00:10:28,154 --> 00:10:28,654 and 298 00:10:29,035 --> 00:10:31,134 I didn't even really like pay attention 299 00:10:31,595 --> 00:10:32,794 when I was doing this, when I was 300 00:10:32,794 --> 00:10:35,035 ordering, but I probably should have thought about 301 00:10:35,035 --> 00:10:36,554 it a little bit more. But I ended 302 00:10:36,554 --> 00:10:39,914 up picking up a it's a ViewSonic monitor. 303 00:10:39,914 --> 00:10:42,139 So like the panel is what it is. 304 00:10:42,139 --> 00:10:43,659 Five k on a Mac, I just gotta 305 00:10:43,659 --> 00:10:45,899 say, like, the hype is there. I'm not 306 00:10:45,899 --> 00:10:48,699 somebody who notices, like, the difference between 60 307 00:10:48,699 --> 00:10:51,500 hertz and 75 hertz or 120, things like 308 00:10:51,500 --> 00:10:54,459 that, but just the pixel density, things like 309 00:10:54,459 --> 00:10:56,315 that clean cleans it up all great. So 310 00:10:56,315 --> 00:10:58,235 so that's all good. But the nice thing, 311 00:10:58,235 --> 00:11:00,794 and or maybe one of the kinda hidden 312 00:11:00,794 --> 00:11:03,214 benefits and drivers here, was 313 00:11:03,754 --> 00:11:04,254 that 314 00:11:04,875 --> 00:11:07,615 at five ks resolutions or six ks resolutions, 315 00:11:07,834 --> 00:11:09,195 things like that, you need a lot of 316 00:11:09,195 --> 00:11:11,740 bandwidth. So you're typically talking, or I think 317 00:11:11,740 --> 00:11:13,340 in most cases for everything I've seen, at 318 00:11:13,340 --> 00:11:14,559 least in the Mac ecosystem, 319 00:11:14,860 --> 00:11:17,340 you're talking about monitors that include things like 320 00:11:17,340 --> 00:11:19,899 Thunderbolt four connectivity. Uh-huh. I didn't even know 321 00:11:19,899 --> 00:11:21,899 this when I picked this particular model up, 322 00:11:21,899 --> 00:11:23,440 but it has a 323 00:11:23,985 --> 00:11:24,725 full KVM, 324 00:11:25,184 --> 00:11:27,024 all that stuff built into it. So it 325 00:11:27,024 --> 00:11:28,384 turns out that not only did I pick 326 00:11:28,384 --> 00:11:30,144 up, like, this monitor that was like, oh, 327 00:11:30,144 --> 00:11:32,065 let me swap out my 32 inches four 328 00:11:32,065 --> 00:11:34,464 k for a 27 inches five k, and 329 00:11:34,464 --> 00:11:35,605 that's been all good. 330 00:11:36,089 --> 00:11:39,209 But also just simplifying my setup, like I've 331 00:11:39,209 --> 00:11:41,529 had like a USB KVM here for a 332 00:11:41,529 --> 00:11:43,850 long time for switching between like my personal 333 00:11:43,850 --> 00:11:46,490 laptop and the work one, so that's another 334 00:11:46,490 --> 00:11:48,774 box that sits on the desk. It has 335 00:11:48,774 --> 00:11:50,695 all sorts of cables running into it because 336 00:11:50,695 --> 00:11:52,134 it needs to go out to other things. 337 00:11:52,134 --> 00:11:54,054 So now I've been able to consolidate all 338 00:11:54,054 --> 00:11:56,554 that down just into this one monitor 339 00:11:56,855 --> 00:11:58,535 and this one thing that sits in front 340 00:11:58,535 --> 00:12:01,434 of me. So five ks monitors remain 341 00:12:01,815 --> 00:12:02,634 pretty expensive. 342 00:12:03,269 --> 00:12:05,509 But if you're somebody who's out there and 343 00:12:05,509 --> 00:12:07,210 you're looking for something, 344 00:12:07,670 --> 00:12:10,310 the prices are pretty good, at least for 345 00:12:10,310 --> 00:12:11,750 like you and I in The US, like 346 00:12:11,750 --> 00:12:13,910 you can get them from like US sellers 347 00:12:13,910 --> 00:12:16,090 like Amazon or B and H photo, 348 00:12:16,415 --> 00:12:18,575 that good stuff. So if somebody's been looking 349 00:12:18,575 --> 00:12:19,615 for one of those and you're looking to 350 00:12:19,615 --> 00:12:21,455 like bite like just place it, bite the 351 00:12:21,455 --> 00:12:23,375 bullet and do it, like and you've got 352 00:12:23,375 --> 00:12:24,915 maybe the income 353 00:12:25,695 --> 00:12:27,375 to make that happen or a benefit at 354 00:12:27,375 --> 00:12:29,235 work or something similar to what I have, 355 00:12:29,455 --> 00:12:31,715 like, oh man, like it's been good. 356 00:12:32,389 --> 00:12:35,509 Like it looks really good. It definitely helps 357 00:12:35,509 --> 00:12:37,990 with like the eye strain thing. And at 358 00:12:37,990 --> 00:12:39,509 least if you're on a Mac and the 359 00:12:39,509 --> 00:12:41,529 way it does kind of display scaling, 360 00:12:41,830 --> 00:12:44,570 all those kinds of things, just awesome. Like 361 00:12:44,870 --> 00:12:45,370 really, 362 00:12:45,804 --> 00:12:47,445 really good for that stuff. And then like 363 00:12:47,445 --> 00:12:48,684 I said, they have all sorts of like 364 00:12:48,684 --> 00:12:50,925 weird features. Like this one, I wasn't looking 365 00:12:50,925 --> 00:12:52,705 for it, but it came with a KVM 366 00:12:52,845 --> 00:12:56,205 KVM. And that all works really good. It 367 00:12:56,205 --> 00:12:58,590 also has a light bar built into it. 368 00:12:58,750 --> 00:13:00,269 So, you know, like the BenQ light bars 369 00:13:00,269 --> 00:13:01,710 and things that sit at the top. Oh, 370 00:13:01,710 --> 00:13:03,070 yeah. Yeah. So this one has a light 371 00:13:03,070 --> 00:13:04,750 bar at the bottom, and so it's not 372 00:13:04,750 --> 00:13:06,590 built into the top of the monitor. But 373 00:13:06,590 --> 00:13:08,110 down at the bottom of the monitor, it 374 00:13:08,110 --> 00:13:09,550 has an extra light that you can go 375 00:13:09,550 --> 00:13:10,050 ahead 376 00:13:10,764 --> 00:13:12,845 and turn on and off. And it's not 377 00:13:12,845 --> 00:13:14,365 as nice like at least being in the 378 00:13:14,365 --> 00:13:16,684 Apple ecosystem, I think like the studio display 379 00:13:16,684 --> 00:13:18,204 or whatever it is would be a lot 380 00:13:18,204 --> 00:13:20,605 nicer just because the integrations and things like 381 00:13:20,605 --> 00:13:22,284 that. Like it's not as pretty as far 382 00:13:22,284 --> 00:13:24,204 as like the looking at it and the 383 00:13:24,204 --> 00:13:26,190 bezels and things like that, or like the 384 00:13:26,190 --> 00:13:27,870 way the wires are sticking out of it, 385 00:13:27,870 --> 00:13:29,950 super janky. Like, this is a ViewSonic five 386 00:13:29,950 --> 00:13:31,790 k monitor that I picked up. Like, it's 387 00:13:31,790 --> 00:13:33,790 dumb. Like, the power, like, when you plug 388 00:13:33,790 --> 00:13:35,629 it in on the bottom, the power button, 389 00:13:35,629 --> 00:13:37,309 like, it's not like a 90 degree cable, 390 00:13:37,309 --> 00:13:39,149 so it's basically, like, hanging, like, straight out 391 00:13:39,149 --> 00:13:40,784 the bottom of the monitor. So you gotta 392 00:13:40,784 --> 00:13:42,644 get by some, like, aesthetic things. 393 00:13:43,024 --> 00:13:46,004 But, you know, that aside, I've been really, 394 00:13:46,144 --> 00:13:48,225 really happy with it to the point where 395 00:13:48,384 --> 00:13:50,225 so I do a dual monitor setup. I 396 00:13:50,225 --> 00:13:52,384 do one landscape in front of me, and 397 00:13:52,384 --> 00:13:53,985 then I do a portrait monitor off to 398 00:13:53,985 --> 00:13:54,964 the side for 399 00:13:55,329 --> 00:13:56,709 long form reading code, 400 00:13:57,009 --> 00:13:59,169 all those kinds of things. So I'm actually 401 00:13:59,169 --> 00:14:01,329 debating, like, we just rolled into a new 402 00:14:01,329 --> 00:14:03,649 year, so I still get that benefit. So 403 00:14:03,649 --> 00:14:05,169 depending on how much of that I use 404 00:14:05,169 --> 00:14:06,929 this year for, like, like I said, like 405 00:14:06,929 --> 00:14:09,009 health, fitness benefits, things like that, if I 406 00:14:09,009 --> 00:14:10,289 maybe got like the extra kid at the 407 00:14:10,289 --> 00:14:11,865 end of the year, may maybe I'll go 408 00:14:11,865 --> 00:14:13,304 pick another one of these up and then 409 00:14:13,304 --> 00:14:15,884 just go dual dual five k. 410 00:14:19,865 --> 00:14:21,945 Do you feel overwhelmed by trying to manage 411 00:14:21,945 --> 00:14:24,230 your Office three sixty five environment? Are you 412 00:14:24,230 --> 00:14:25,049 facing unexpected 413 00:14:25,429 --> 00:14:28,549 issues that disrupt your company's productivity? 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What else can 435 00:15:23,169 --> 00:15:24,929 I do? You could three d print some 436 00:15:24,929 --> 00:15:27,009 ergonomic stuff for your desk. You don't have 437 00:15:27,009 --> 00:15:28,049 to convince me. That might be a little 438 00:15:28,049 --> 00:15:30,289 bit of a stretch. I'm all in on 439 00:15:30,289 --> 00:15:33,054 the what's it called? The Gridfinity thing? Is 440 00:15:33,054 --> 00:15:36,014 that it? Yeah. The Gridfinity and then, like, 441 00:15:36,014 --> 00:15:38,095 the whole pegboard thing was the I did 442 00:15:38,095 --> 00:15:39,855 open grid, but there's a few different, like, 443 00:15:39,855 --> 00:15:42,095 hex board things. Gotcha. But on the monitor 444 00:15:42,095 --> 00:15:45,019 topic, if 27 inch isn't big enough for 445 00:15:45,019 --> 00:15:47,100 you and you want six k instead of 446 00:15:47,100 --> 00:15:49,040 five k, at CES, 447 00:15:49,580 --> 00:15:51,580 Dell I do not have this, but I'm 448 00:15:51,580 --> 00:15:53,580 not gonna lie. I kinda want it. Dell 449 00:15:53,580 --> 00:15:55,259 announced a 52 450 00:15:55,259 --> 00:15:55,759 inch 451 00:15:56,355 --> 00:15:56,855 six 452 00:15:57,315 --> 00:15:59,334 k HDR 120 hertz 453 00:15:59,955 --> 00:16:02,195 monitor. It kinda made me drool. Yeah. But 454 00:16:02,195 --> 00:16:04,434 at 52 inches, like, you gotta be, like, 455 00:16:04,434 --> 00:16:07,154 pretty far back because I'm telling you, like, 456 00:16:07,154 --> 00:16:10,200 the sweet like, the pixel density thing, like, 457 00:16:10,200 --> 00:16:12,300 can't see the lines, Russ. Like, 458 00:16:12,840 --> 00:16:14,840 it's real. So I'd have to see something 459 00:16:14,840 --> 00:16:16,120 like that in person. At least you can 460 00:16:16,120 --> 00:16:18,120 go see, like, a 27 inches five k 461 00:16:18,120 --> 00:16:19,639 or you can go see a six k 462 00:16:19,639 --> 00:16:22,774 monitor up to, like, 32 inch, things like 463 00:16:22,774 --> 00:16:24,855 that. The like, I only call it out 464 00:16:24,855 --> 00:16:26,534 to say, like, the ecosystem's got a lot 465 00:16:26,534 --> 00:16:28,375 better. Like like, these things are there. A 466 00:16:28,375 --> 00:16:30,235 lot of them are limited to 60 hertz. 467 00:16:30,294 --> 00:16:32,214 Oh, another, like, little nice surprise. Like, this 468 00:16:32,214 --> 00:16:34,980 ViewSonic monitor, again, like, the panel's great. Maybe, 469 00:16:34,980 --> 00:16:36,659 like, the connectivity is weird to look at, 470 00:16:36,659 --> 00:16:39,539 things like that, but it also goes to 471 00:16:39,539 --> 00:16:41,700 75 Hertz. I don't know. But I can't 472 00:16:41,700 --> 00:16:43,620 tell the difference between sixty and seventy five 473 00:16:43,620 --> 00:16:46,019 with my old man eyes. So that's a 474 00:16:46,419 --> 00:16:48,004 Got it. See, and I already work on 475 00:16:48,004 --> 00:16:50,585 a 43 inch, and I sit I'm probably 476 00:16:51,045 --> 00:16:53,845 just around three feet away from my monitor 477 00:16:53,845 --> 00:16:55,605 when I work. So for me, the jump 478 00:16:55,605 --> 00:16:57,684 to 52 wouldn't be that big a deal. 479 00:16:57,684 --> 00:16:59,684 But it does. You definitely need the right 480 00:16:59,684 --> 00:17:01,550 desk setup. Either that or or you do 481 00:17:01,550 --> 00:17:04,349 that 55 inch arc arc display or whatever 482 00:17:04,349 --> 00:17:06,130 that that Samsung makes. Right? 483 00:17:06,430 --> 00:17:08,029 I was trying to think. Like, I feel 484 00:17:08,029 --> 00:17:09,789 like I didn't buy as much tech. Is 485 00:17:09,789 --> 00:17:11,309 it bad that I'm, like, looking through my 486 00:17:11,309 --> 00:17:13,150 Amazon shopping list to see what I bought 487 00:17:13,150 --> 00:17:13,890 this year? 488 00:17:15,615 --> 00:17:18,494 Nah. It's never bad. Only good stuff. I 489 00:17:18,494 --> 00:17:20,734 mean, the Bamboo printer, I've gotten to the 490 00:17:20,734 --> 00:17:22,654 point, Scott. I I have a lot of 491 00:17:22,654 --> 00:17:24,575 tech. I like my tech, and I absolutely 492 00:17:24,575 --> 00:17:26,515 like my new toys, but I feel like 493 00:17:26,815 --> 00:17:29,315 my wife very well may disagree with this. 494 00:17:29,454 --> 00:17:31,509 I'm pretty happy with my setup, and and 495 00:17:31,509 --> 00:17:34,410 I'm trying to avoid just adding more clutter 496 00:17:34,470 --> 00:17:37,429 to my office because I want new tech 497 00:17:37,429 --> 00:17:39,750 toys. Oh, I bought new UPSs this year. 498 00:17:39,750 --> 00:17:41,190 I had some batteries go out in the 499 00:17:41,190 --> 00:17:42,710 UPSs, so I had to buy some new 500 00:17:42,710 --> 00:17:45,029 batteries, some new UPSs. You're tugging at my 501 00:17:45,029 --> 00:17:48,004 heartstrings because I need a new UPS. 502 00:17:48,625 --> 00:17:50,144 That was another one. I just had one 503 00:17:50,144 --> 00:17:51,424 die the other day. I'm like, do I 504 00:17:51,424 --> 00:17:53,024 get a new battery for it or and 505 00:17:53,024 --> 00:17:55,024 just replace the battery, like, off to eBay 506 00:17:55,024 --> 00:17:57,044 I go, or should I 507 00:17:57,424 --> 00:17:59,664 should I look at new ones? So I 508 00:17:59,664 --> 00:18:01,509 think what I wanna do next is I 509 00:18:01,509 --> 00:18:03,369 think I wanna do a rack mountable UPS 510 00:18:03,589 --> 00:18:05,750 so that I can then selfishly get a 511 00:18:05,750 --> 00:18:07,509 rack so that I can mount my UDM 512 00:18:07,509 --> 00:18:09,349 Pro in a rack and get it off 513 00:18:09,349 --> 00:18:11,109 the the bottom of the And then do 514 00:18:11,109 --> 00:18:12,470 you know what else you can do? You 515 00:18:12,470 --> 00:18:15,184 can three d print rack things too, mount 516 00:18:15,184 --> 00:18:16,945 other stuff in your rack that aren't naturally 517 00:18:16,945 --> 00:18:18,785 rack mountable. Look at this. I'm gonna fit 518 00:18:18,785 --> 00:18:21,505 this in everywhere this this episode. It all 519 00:18:21,505 --> 00:18:23,664 comes back to three d printing. It's funny 520 00:18:23,664 --> 00:18:24,965 how funny how circular 521 00:18:25,424 --> 00:18:27,585 the world is there. I should remember this. 522 00:18:27,585 --> 00:18:30,019 I also got, I am a Logitech 523 00:18:30,320 --> 00:18:30,820 mouse 524 00:18:31,360 --> 00:18:32,500 junkie, maybe? 525 00:18:32,799 --> 00:18:35,440 I love my Logitech mice probably as much 526 00:18:35,440 --> 00:18:37,360 as I love my Max, and they came 527 00:18:37,360 --> 00:18:39,759 out with the MX Master four this year. 528 00:18:39,759 --> 00:18:41,680 And, naturally, the day they came out with 529 00:18:41,680 --> 00:18:43,274 it, I bought two, one to go in 530 00:18:43,274 --> 00:18:44,714 my backpack and one to be at my 531 00:18:44,714 --> 00:18:47,115 desk with me. But I've had every version 532 00:18:47,194 --> 00:18:48,954 I think I have them. I have one, 533 00:18:48,954 --> 00:18:50,875 two, three, four, five. I, like, have my 534 00:18:50,875 --> 00:18:53,115 Logitech mice displayed. You can't really see them 535 00:18:53,115 --> 00:18:54,474 under the corner here. I think I have 536 00:18:54,474 --> 00:18:56,014 six Logitech mice 537 00:18:56,369 --> 00:18:58,930 as they've gone from the MX Master to 538 00:18:58,930 --> 00:19:00,529 the two to the two s to the 539 00:19:00,529 --> 00:19:02,950 three, three s. Three s. Yep. Four 540 00:19:03,250 --> 00:19:05,329 Four s, whenever that comes. Yeah. Are you 541 00:19:05,329 --> 00:19:07,089 liking the haptic feedback on it? I don't 542 00:19:07,089 --> 00:19:09,755 use it a ton. I do like 543 00:19:10,055 --> 00:19:13,035 so if people have used the Logitech Master 544 00:19:13,255 --> 00:19:14,075 mice before, 545 00:19:14,455 --> 00:19:16,695 they always had a thumb button underneath it, 546 00:19:16,695 --> 00:19:18,934 but you had to push down on the 547 00:19:18,934 --> 00:19:21,255 mouse, which was like a sideways movement with 548 00:19:21,255 --> 00:19:23,049 your thumb, which for me was a little 549 00:19:23,049 --> 00:19:23,869 bit unnatural. 550 00:19:24,250 --> 00:19:26,490 On the four, they kinda moved it so 551 00:19:26,490 --> 00:19:28,970 you can it's, like, on both sides of 552 00:19:28,970 --> 00:19:31,070 your thumb, so you can squeeze the mouse. 553 00:19:31,289 --> 00:19:34,029 Now to click that thumb button, which is 554 00:19:34,845 --> 00:19:37,005 much nicer. I do use that more, and 555 00:19:37,005 --> 00:19:39,565 they added shortcuts with it. So if I 556 00:19:39,565 --> 00:19:40,924 push that button, I get some of the 557 00:19:40,924 --> 00:19:43,265 haptic feedback, and I can have shortcuts 558 00:19:43,644 --> 00:19:45,984 to AI, to multimedia, to launch, 559 00:19:46,285 --> 00:19:47,184 like, finder. 560 00:19:47,839 --> 00:19:49,920 You can kinda customize what you want it 561 00:19:49,920 --> 00:19:52,720 to do. So it's like an extra mouse 562 00:19:52,720 --> 00:19:55,859 button with Stream Deck ish type functionality 563 00:19:56,240 --> 00:19:58,320 that just pops up on your screen. Kind 564 00:19:58,320 --> 00:19:58,980 of useful. 565 00:19:59,440 --> 00:20:02,144 The other thing they did is they switched 566 00:20:02,224 --> 00:20:03,744 if again, if you use the other ones, 567 00:20:03,744 --> 00:20:04,944 they had a little bit more of a 568 00:20:04,944 --> 00:20:05,444 rubbery 569 00:20:05,744 --> 00:20:08,484 surface under the palm of your hand that 570 00:20:08,784 --> 00:20:11,684 they tended to get a little sticky, grimy 571 00:20:12,144 --> 00:20:14,224 It disintegrates. It got gross. I would hold 572 00:20:14,224 --> 00:20:17,359 mine up and show you how just frankly 573 00:20:17,420 --> 00:20:18,559 nasty it is. 574 00:20:19,019 --> 00:20:20,619 And no matter how much you clean it 575 00:20:20,619 --> 00:20:23,339 or anything like, if you're somebody who like, 576 00:20:23,339 --> 00:20:25,180 I don't know, I have bad habits, like 577 00:20:25,180 --> 00:20:26,859 I eat lunch at my desk or things 578 00:20:26,859 --> 00:20:28,220 like that. So like like, yeah, if you 579 00:20:28,220 --> 00:20:29,740 have like a sandwich or like a potato 580 00:20:29,740 --> 00:20:31,420 chip or something, and then you touch that 581 00:20:31,420 --> 00:20:33,875 mouse afterwards, oh, it's in there. So the 582 00:20:33,875 --> 00:20:34,694 hard plastic 583 00:20:35,234 --> 00:20:37,554 is better for that, and I this is 584 00:20:37,554 --> 00:20:40,615 gonna be some personal preference. I feel like 585 00:20:40,914 --> 00:20:41,815 you compromise 586 00:20:42,115 --> 00:20:44,914 some of the comfort that the three s 587 00:20:44,914 --> 00:20:47,099 had when you go to the four, and 588 00:20:47,099 --> 00:20:49,200 I don't know if it's 589 00:20:49,740 --> 00:20:51,359 some of it might be the rubber. 590 00:20:51,660 --> 00:20:54,140 I also feel like, and I should compare 591 00:20:54,140 --> 00:20:56,539 it with a three s, the mouse is 592 00:20:56,539 --> 00:20:57,119 a little 593 00:20:57,500 --> 00:20:59,625 narrower. So I don't know if you ever 594 00:20:59,625 --> 00:21:00,904 have the problem where you're, like, moving your 595 00:21:00,904 --> 00:21:02,825 mouse and you bump into a Stream Deck 596 00:21:02,825 --> 00:21:04,904 or you run into your keyboard and you 597 00:21:04,904 --> 00:21:06,184 have to pick it up and just move 598 00:21:06,184 --> 00:21:08,025 it a quarter inch or a half inch 599 00:21:08,025 --> 00:21:11,065 or something. It's gonna sound weird, but the 600 00:21:11,065 --> 00:21:13,930 pickup and movability of it is not as 601 00:21:13,930 --> 00:21:16,670 comfortable. I feel like it takes more effort 602 00:21:16,809 --> 00:21:18,570 to just pick up the mouse and move 603 00:21:18,570 --> 00:21:19,850 it a little bit. And I don't know 604 00:21:19,850 --> 00:21:21,370 if it's narrower. I don't know if they 605 00:21:21,370 --> 00:21:23,210 changed the contour a little bit. I don't 606 00:21:23,210 --> 00:21:25,049 know if the rubber had a little bit 607 00:21:25,049 --> 00:21:25,870 more grippiness. 608 00:21:26,474 --> 00:21:28,875 But that's something I noticed right away was 609 00:21:28,875 --> 00:21:30,234 when I hit my keyboard and had to 610 00:21:30,234 --> 00:21:32,474 move it, it felt like it took more 611 00:21:32,474 --> 00:21:34,714 effort with the four than with the three 612 00:21:34,714 --> 00:21:37,134 s. This is such a niche situation, but 613 00:21:37,194 --> 00:21:38,714 what I really want them to do with 614 00:21:38,714 --> 00:21:39,535 this is 615 00:21:39,914 --> 00:21:41,355 I want them to make it a little 616 00:21:41,355 --> 00:21:44,009 bit taller. And the reason is I have 617 00:21:44,009 --> 00:21:45,609 an Ember mug. So I've got like that 618 00:21:45,609 --> 00:21:47,369 coffee mug on my desk that's always hot 619 00:21:47,369 --> 00:21:49,690 and charging. And because I keep the charging 620 00:21:49,690 --> 00:21:52,009 plate on my desk, the lip of the 621 00:21:52,009 --> 00:21:53,789 charging plate is perfect 622 00:21:54,095 --> 00:21:55,855 for the right click button on that mouse, 623 00:21:55,855 --> 00:21:58,255 and I'm right handed. So every time I 624 00:21:58,255 --> 00:22:00,335 move the mouse over by my coffee cup, 625 00:22:00,335 --> 00:22:02,835 it's not that I bump it. It's that 626 00:22:03,134 --> 00:22:06,335 the button goes underneath that lip, and it 627 00:22:06,335 --> 00:22:08,829 clicks. So sometimes I'll be in, like, meetings 628 00:22:08,829 --> 00:22:10,750 and they like, and I just, like, right 629 00:22:10,750 --> 00:22:12,430 clicks the screen or it does, like, a 630 00:22:12,430 --> 00:22:14,269 weird action. It's like like, people are like, 631 00:22:14,269 --> 00:22:16,269 oh, did you wanna talk? Like, no. Sorry. 632 00:22:16,269 --> 00:22:18,029 I didn't wanna talk. My mouse my my 633 00:22:18,029 --> 00:22:19,774 mouse was over the mute button, and I 634 00:22:19,774 --> 00:22:21,294 happened to go and grab my coffee mug, 635 00:22:21,294 --> 00:22:23,454 and I touched my mouse, and it unmuted 636 00:22:23,454 --> 00:22:23,954 me. 637 00:22:24,734 --> 00:22:26,335 Yeah. I've never had that. I've had the 638 00:22:26,335 --> 00:22:28,654 opposite problem sometimes with a coaster where the 639 00:22:28,654 --> 00:22:30,174 button goes right over it, and I go 640 00:22:30,174 --> 00:22:31,315 to click and I can't 641 00:22:31,710 --> 00:22:33,089 because the coaster's 642 00:22:33,549 --> 00:22:35,950 holding the button up. But, yes, a little 643 00:22:35,950 --> 00:22:37,549 bit taller, that would work. I don't know 644 00:22:37,549 --> 00:22:38,829 if it's taller or not. I don't think 645 00:22:38,829 --> 00:22:40,829 it is. But, yeah, that was something else 646 00:22:40,829 --> 00:22:42,990 I bought this year. Absolutely. Like, all the 647 00:22:42,990 --> 00:22:45,470 weird third world or first world problems we 648 00:22:45,470 --> 00:22:47,534 run into here. Yeah. So I got one 649 00:22:47,534 --> 00:22:48,575 more for you. I know you got to 650 00:22:48,575 --> 00:22:49,694 go to a meeting real quick and then 651 00:22:49,694 --> 00:22:52,755 we'll cut things off. So millimeter wave sensors, 652 00:22:53,134 --> 00:22:55,534 I picked Oh. And I was able to 653 00:22:55,534 --> 00:22:58,015 snag when and you got to watch these 654 00:22:58,015 --> 00:22:59,960 on like Camel or something like that. Okay. 655 00:22:59,960 --> 00:23:02,039 I've had an Aqara FP two for a 656 00:23:02,039 --> 00:23:04,119 long time. That's a millimeter wave sensor. I've 657 00:23:04,119 --> 00:23:05,480 got it up here on the wall by 658 00:23:05,480 --> 00:23:07,240 my desk. So what it does is when 659 00:23:07,240 --> 00:23:08,759 I sit down at my desk, I've got 660 00:23:08,759 --> 00:23:10,615 all my stuff plugged into smart plugs, and 661 00:23:10,615 --> 00:23:12,134 it just turns it on, turns it off. 662 00:23:12,134 --> 00:23:13,494 So if I get up, walk away, things 663 00:23:13,494 --> 00:23:15,255 like that. So I got an FP two, 664 00:23:15,255 --> 00:23:17,095 which you have to plug in via USB, 665 00:23:17,095 --> 00:23:18,454 so now I got a cord running up 666 00:23:18,454 --> 00:23:20,534 the wall, like it's janky, right? It doesn't 667 00:23:20,534 --> 00:23:23,274 look good. So they made the FP 300, 668 00:23:23,414 --> 00:23:25,494 which is a wireless five in one. So 669 00:23:25,494 --> 00:23:28,320 it's a millimeter wave PIR, light temperature and 670 00:23:28,320 --> 00:23:31,039 humidity sensor, but it's battery powered. I forget 671 00:23:31,039 --> 00:23:33,680 if they're like CR twenty thirty two's or 672 00:23:33,680 --> 00:23:36,320 twenty twenty five's, things like that. You just 673 00:23:36,320 --> 00:23:38,339 mount it up on the wall, no wires. 674 00:23:38,755 --> 00:23:40,835 The batteries are supposed to last about three 675 00:23:40,835 --> 00:23:42,595 months, so I was able to pull down 676 00:23:42,595 --> 00:23:45,075 my FP2, put this thing up there, and 677 00:23:45,075 --> 00:23:46,454 it's just a lot smaller, 678 00:23:46,835 --> 00:23:48,775 works with the whole Acara ecosystem, 679 00:23:49,315 --> 00:23:50,454 ties in with 680 00:23:50,769 --> 00:23:51,509 Home Assistant, 681 00:23:51,890 --> 00:23:55,349 Alexa, Google Home, just does all that stuff. 682 00:23:55,410 --> 00:23:56,849 If somebody's looking for, like, one of these 683 00:23:56,849 --> 00:23:58,369 and you're like, you're looking for, like, a 684 00:23:58,369 --> 00:24:01,569 turnkey one Uh-huh. Super cool. The FP2s are 685 00:24:01,569 --> 00:24:03,569 great. This one I love for the lack 686 00:24:03,569 --> 00:24:05,035 of wire, and as long as they like 687 00:24:05,115 --> 00:24:06,714 like, even at three months, if the battery 688 00:24:06,714 --> 00:24:09,434 dies, whatever, I'll just swap the batteries out. 689 00:24:09,434 --> 00:24:11,454 It's way easier. It's smaller, 690 00:24:11,914 --> 00:24:14,734 mounts easier, just a really good 691 00:24:15,035 --> 00:24:18,929 little device, and it's been rock solid for 692 00:24:18,929 --> 00:24:21,089 me so far. Haven't had any drops out 693 00:24:21,089 --> 00:24:23,009 from Wi Fi or things like that. Occasionally, 694 00:24:23,009 --> 00:24:24,369 I get those on, like, my f p 695 00:24:24,369 --> 00:24:26,450 two. But if you're looking for, like, room 696 00:24:26,450 --> 00:24:28,609 home automation, like I walked into the room, 697 00:24:28,609 --> 00:24:30,769 I walked out of the room, millimeter wave's 698 00:24:30,769 --> 00:24:32,394 great for that because if you're sitting down 699 00:24:32,394 --> 00:24:34,234 and watching TV, like, turn the TV on, 700 00:24:34,234 --> 00:24:36,394 but then you stop moving, typically, like, just 701 00:24:36,394 --> 00:24:38,154 a motion sensor might shut the room down. 702 00:24:38,154 --> 00:24:39,914 Like, maybe somebody's been in, like, an office 703 00:24:39,914 --> 00:24:41,355 building when the lights shut off, and you 704 00:24:41,355 --> 00:24:43,115 kinda wave your hand in the conference room 705 00:24:43,115 --> 00:24:45,179 to come back. You don't have to do 706 00:24:45,179 --> 00:24:47,385 that with millimeter wave sensors. They're just really 707 00:24:47,385 --> 00:24:49,592 good, excellent. There's a whole, like, ecosystem out 708 00:24:49,592 --> 00:24:51,798 there, but I I really love the Aqara 709 00:24:51,798 --> 00:24:54,005 ones. Like I said, the FP two has 710 00:24:54,005 --> 00:24:56,487 been great. The I've used that for, like, 711 00:24:56,487 --> 00:24:59,234 two years. Plus the FP 300 now. Been 712 00:24:59,234 --> 00:25:00,994 running it for a month, and it's been 713 00:25:00,994 --> 00:25:02,674 rock solid. I just picked some of these 714 00:25:02,674 --> 00:25:04,514 up because I'm in the Unifi since we're 715 00:25:04,514 --> 00:25:06,355 talking about it, and then I really should 716 00:25:06,355 --> 00:25:08,375 go. Unifi came out with their Superlink 717 00:25:08,835 --> 00:25:11,890 device, which brings in, like, environmental sensors and 718 00:25:11,890 --> 00:25:14,470 some of that. They just released their 719 00:25:14,849 --> 00:25:15,829 motion sensor 720 00:25:16,690 --> 00:25:17,269 or Unifi. 721 00:25:17,730 --> 00:25:20,130 I ordered two of them. I don't know 722 00:25:20,130 --> 00:25:21,829 if those are millimeter wavelength 723 00:25:22,765 --> 00:25:25,404 or not. I was just looking. They're all 724 00:25:25,404 --> 00:25:28,144 in one sensors that they put out there. 725 00:25:28,365 --> 00:25:29,825 They do do motion detection. 726 00:25:30,285 --> 00:25:32,224 No. It's not the all in ones. 727 00:25:32,525 --> 00:25:35,005 They have a specific motion one there. I 728 00:25:35,005 --> 00:25:36,684 just dropped a link in the chat. Oh, 729 00:25:36,684 --> 00:25:39,220 the motion sensor. Gotcha. Yeah. I don't know 730 00:25:39,220 --> 00:25:41,559 if that's millimeter wave. I have their environmental 731 00:25:41,700 --> 00:25:44,279 sensors, which are kinda nice. It's just something 732 00:25:44,339 --> 00:25:46,259 I've been playing with. Cool. Another thing for 733 00:25:46,259 --> 00:25:48,019 folks to look at. So we'll get back 734 00:25:48,019 --> 00:25:50,714 to our regularly scheduled program around, like, m 735 00:25:50,714 --> 00:25:52,875 three sixty five and Azure and all that 736 00:25:52,875 --> 00:25:54,494 stuff. But always like chatting 737 00:25:54,795 --> 00:25:55,694 about the 738 00:25:55,994 --> 00:25:58,554 new toys and everything that's out there, and 739 00:25:58,554 --> 00:26:00,315 now I gotta go convince my wife to 740 00:26:00,474 --> 00:26:02,474 Absolutely. Three d printer. Get a three d 741 00:26:02,474 --> 00:26:05,429 printer. Yep. Or come up with a health 742 00:26:05,429 --> 00:26:08,329 and ergonomic reason that you need one. Absolutely. 743 00:26:08,390 --> 00:26:10,710 Use your money. Your yearly budget for your 744 00:26:10,710 --> 00:26:13,349 three d printer. Alright. Thanks, Ben. Awesome. Thanks, 745 00:26:13,349 --> 00:26:14,710 Scott. Have a good one. You too. 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